Crystal River current., 1887-05-21
COLORADO CONDENSED,

oICClCN Is W IlitNc IL SlIccL railway.
Durango is to have Il new 5000
hotel.
A military company has been organ
lied at Ouray.
Leadville schools have been closed
for lack of funds.
New and rich mineral discoveries
are reported at Rico.
The real estate transfers in Denver
now amount to nearly $1,000, 600 week.
A contract has been let for bath
house at Glenwood Springs to cost s75, GOO.
Fully one thousand men are en-
ployed on the store quarries of Larimer
county.
Nine separate accidents happened to
miners in Central City inside of two days
last week.
1t is reported that Armour is abont
to erect a big beef packing establishment
in Denver.
Michael Donovan fell distance
of one hundred feet in LeadvIle mine
and was instantly killed.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams claims
that there was net loss of SEQ, 600 in oper-
ating the South Park road last year.
The Black Girl group of mines To-
Gated at Camp Paquin. near Ouray, has
been sold to Boston capitalist for 500, OOO
The highest grade on the Midland
railroad is at Cascade Canon, five miles
above Manitou, where it is 211 feet to the
mile.
Governor and Mrs. Adams gave a
handsome reception to large number of
guests at the Albany Hotel in Denver last
Tuesday.
The Farmers Elevator Company at
Fort Collins has shipped 65,OOO bushels of
| wheat of the crop of 1856, and has 90 600
bushels yet in store.
The Governor has yielded to the adj
vice of friends and appointed Friday, May
9th as Arbor Day. Millions of trees should
be set out on that day.
Seven carloads of railroader's out
fits were unloaded at Akron, last week.
They will work on the Cheyenne line of
the Burlington & Missouri.
1t is reported that the Atchison, To-
peka e Santa Fe are trying to buy the Den
yer, Utah Il Pacific railroad, as part of a
proposed northern extension.
Mr.. Charles Lee, for n long time chief
clerk Of General Passenger Agent Hooper,
of the ID. u r. g., has been appointed Gem
eral Passenger Agent of the Midland.
Governor Marmaduke of Missouri tel
egraphed Governor Adams asking him to
revoke the quarantine proclamation against
Missouri. Governor Adams will not com
ply.
Chairman Stevens of the Republican
City Central Committee has published a
card in which he calls Mr.. Lee, the newly
elected Republican Mayor, a coward and
liar.
The explosion of a box of giant caps
in the house of Mr.. Harry Garlick in Cen
trail City, fatally injured Mr.. Joseph Gar
lick and slightly wounded number of
others.
A reward of $3.50 has been offered by
the Governor for the arrest OF Filepe
Duchesne, who is charged with killing W.
II. Cox, near Rock Creek, Summit County,
on March Is.
The best estimates that can be made
at the United States land office show that
about 1000 emigrants have settled in
Eastern Colorado since the first of April-a
period of three weeks.
The committee appointed to ex-
anime the books of the State Treasurer re-
ported them to be in correct condition.
The funds in the hands of the State Treas
urer amount to $1,000, 22s71.
An irrigating ditch has just been
completed on Orchard mesa, near Grand
Junction, with flow of water sufficient to
supply twelve 16oacre ranches. The ditch
starts from White Water Creek, and is
eighteen miles in length.
Judge Hallett granted leave to the
owners of the Durant mine at Aspen to ex-
tend their workings into the Emma claim
for the purpose of showing the continuity
of the vein, to be used as testimony in the
next trial of the Durant VS.. the Emma.
The Burlington and the Union Pacific
Railroad Companies have made joint con-
tract to build single line of track through
Gore and Cottonwood Canons, this State,
and down the Grand River from the mouth
of the Blue to Glenwood Springs, distance
of seventy-five miles.
An immense and most enthusiastic
mass meeting was held at the Pueblo Opera
House Tuesday night to consider the prop
osition made by the officials of the Missouri
Pacific railroad. 1t was decided unani-
mously to accept the propositions and tel
egram to that effect was sent Mr.. Clark.
Real estate is advancing in value rapidly.
Since the first of April $50 pre-emp-
tons and 231 homesteads have been filed on
in the Denver land Office in addition to the
timber culture filings making a total of
ISL. Mr.. Mott, of the Denver office, said he
did not know the number of filings that bad